Lola Butcher
George Halverson, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO gave a keynote earlier today at the World Health Care Congress in Washington DC. The statistics he gave were compelling. The opportunities, also, really interesting. From a consumer perspective, the prescription he wrote was not– heavy on centralized best practice reminiscent of the socialistic […]
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The future of EHM is full of possibilities that go well beyond methods and concepts reflected in current trends and practices. While there are probably many more, there are at least three that deserve some consideration, in my view at least. They are not really innovations, per se, but different applications of methods […]
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The Patient Charter for Physician Performance Measurement, Reporting and Tiering Programs, developed by the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project reflects one of the larger coalitions pushing for value-based purchasing, by all those who are customers of medical care. Aetna recently announced its support of the effort, which aims at combining transparency by or about medical […]
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There are a number of advantages available in a pay-for-performance approach to worker compensation, at least for as many workers as it can reasonably be applied to. It has been shown to, by itself, increase performance in two different ways, for example. First, it tends to motivate workers who have been […]
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